Repositioning Victorian Sciences (eBook, PDF)

Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Thinking
Redaktion: Clifford, David; Willis, Martin; Warwick, Alex; Wadge, Elisabeth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection explore the influence of nineteenth-century culture on the rise of these sciences, investigating the emergence of marginal sciences such as scriptural geology and spiritualism. Repositioning Victorian Sciences is a valuable addition to our understanding of nineteenth-century science in its original context, and will also be of great interest to those studying the era as a whole.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781843317517
• Artikelnr.: 44457478

Autorenporträt

Edited by David Clifford, Elisabeth Wadge, Alex Warwick and Martin Willis

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors; 1. Margins and Centres; Section I: Shifted Centres:
2. 'Speakers Concerning the Earth': Ruskin's Geology After 1860; 3. Simming
at the Edges of Scientific Respectability: Sea Serpents in the Victorian
Era; 4. 'The Drugs, the Blister and the Lancet are all Laid Aside':
Hydropathy and Medical Orthodoxy in Scotland, 1840-1900; 5. Anna Kingsford:
Scientist and Sorceress; 6. A Science for One or a Science for All?
Physiognomy, Self-Help, and the Practical Benefits of Science; Section II:
Contested Knowledges: 7. 'Supposed DIfferences': Lydia Becker and Victorian
Women's Participation in the BAAS; 8. A Fair Trial for Spiritualism?:
Fighting Dirty in the Pall Mall Gazette; 9. 'This is Ours and For Us': The
Mechanic's Magazine and Low Scientific Culture in Regency London; 10. How
did the Conservation of Energy Become 'The Highest Law in All Science'?;
11. 'Scriptural Geology', Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and
Contested Authority in Nineteenth-Century British Science; 12. 'This House
is a Temple of Research': Country-House Centres for Late Victorian Science;
Section III: Entering the Modern: 13. Fresnel's Particular Waves: Models of
Light as Catalytic Modes of Worldmaking in Early Modern Times; 14.
Re-imagining  Heaven: Victorian Lunar Studies and the Anxiety of
Loneliness; 15. 'You Should Get Your Head Examined': Freudian
Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Nineteenth-Century Science; 16. Scholars,
Scientists and Sexual Inverts: Authority and Sexology in Nineteenth-Century
Britain; 17. Unmasking Immorality: Popular Opposition to Laboratory Science
in Late Victorian Britain; Notes; Select Bibliography